Well, Ken and Terry.... I certainly dont know about the term <<established memory>> as it really hasnt been described in more then the most generalized and romantic of fashions, but then on the other hand I do find that pianos do indeed seem to hold tunings better if they recieve many tunings and are well maintained in their first years. I often underline the value of giving a piano a <<good start>> to new piano owners because this seems to be the case. That said... I have no hard data to back up this suspicion, and I dont think there is any study out there which touches on the matter specifically. Terms like <<Circle of Sound>> and <<Pitch Memory>> are always fun ones... because they really are so pictorial that a precise clarification as too what they really are meant to describe never seems to be available. So they get ridiculed on the one hand, and supported with nearly religious fervour on the other hand, with really nothing inbetween. Whether or not they actually stem from some real function or physical reality or not seems impossible to confirm or deny. Btw Ken.... the Circle of Sound and the Circle of 5ths are to completely different worlds and have nothing to do with each other. The Circle of Sound is a term coined by Steinway and Sons and is supposed to refer to an acoustic property they believe they build into their pianos and is used as one of their primary justifications for refusing to use tuning pin bushings. Great reading can be had on the subject matter in the archieves. Cheers RicB Terry wrote: > /"I have observed that some old pianos that haven't been tuned in many > years respond to pitch raise and tuning much more readily than others. > This can only be due to established memory."/ > > This sounds like a bunch of poppycock! Established memory? Maybe a > persistent bend in a string, but established memory? Way too romantic. > Is this theory promulgated by the originators of "the circle of sound"? >
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